Comment 1 for bug 735226

Hello Kevin: thank you for both of your bug reports. I believe the arguments for fading out the Application title in the Top Bar is so that it is the same width as the window manager's close, minimise, maximise buttons. Being the same width, and therefore same offset means that the menus items themselves always remain in a the same position afterwards.

Part of the advantage of a menu system (regardless of whether it is hidden or not) is that the location of the items are consistent and predictable to the user. If the Menus were to be placed after the application title they would move left or right depending on the length of the application name or the currently open document. The "File" menu would end up being different positions in different applications.

This is likely to be a Won't Fix (at least for this cycle) unless there's a better idea of what could be done.